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MusicBee Wishlist / On-the-fly Conversion: Allow "convert lossless or unsupported formats"
« on: August 05, 2022, 08:42:46 AM »
tl;dr: it'd be nice to be able to constrain sync conversion behaviour to retain lossy files that can be played by the device whilst still converting FLAC files.
I'm using MusicBee to handle playback of my library, which is mostly FLAC, but has a few odd bits and pieces in various lossy formats (ogg vorbis, mp3, wma) from over the years. I've been using the sync tool to copy music onto my phone for mobile listening which mostly covers my needs, but...
The general priorities (and personal preferences I guess) I have for playback are:
* Avoid transcoding where necessary, to try and minimize stacked encoding artifacts
* Transcode file-types that aren't supported, so I can play all music that's being synced
* Transcode the FLACs to something lossy, so I can fit a much better selection of music on the device
Worth noting that this could probably be achieved if I could manually override the supported file-types (ie: pretend the device doesn't support FLAC), though I imagine that'd be more work than it's worth, unless there's some config/registry hack that I could make to achieve it?
And thanks for all the hard work - MusicBee is by far the closest to "perfect to my needs", and it's much appreciated. I hope the extra context helps justify the "need". As a dev myself, I also appreciate that dev time is always limited, so fully understand if this one's never important enough
I'm using MusicBee to handle playback of my library, which is mostly FLAC, but has a few odd bits and pieces in various lossy formats (ogg vorbis, mp3, wma) from over the years. I've been using the sync tool to copy music onto my phone for mobile listening which mostly covers my needs, but...
The general priorities (and personal preferences I guess) I have for playback are:
* Avoid transcoding where necessary, to try and minimize stacked encoding artifacts
* Transcode file-types that aren't supported, so I can play all music that's being synced
* Transcode the FLACs to something lossy, so I can fit a much better selection of music on the device
Worth noting that this could probably be achieved if I could manually override the supported file-types (ie: pretend the device doesn't support FLAC), though I imagine that'd be more work than it's worth, unless there's some config/registry hack that I could make to achieve it?
And thanks for all the hard work - MusicBee is by far the closest to "perfect to my needs", and it's much appreciated. I hope the extra context helps justify the "need". As a dev myself, I also appreciate that dev time is always limited, so fully understand if this one's never important enough